Rosemary Griggs

A collage of daffodils from my Devon garden

Happy St David’s Day!

#StDavidsDay #daffodils

Something more modern today. Two beautiful windows by stained-glass artist, Tom Denny in Tewkesbury Abbey.

#StainedGlassSunday

Meanwhile in my Devon greenhouse green shoots are appearing. Sweet peas, stattice and helichrysum. I’m growing a few flowers for drying this season.

#greenhouse #gardening

St. John the Baptist Church, Marldon, Devon. The tower was built mid 15th century and the Gilbert Chapel added 1520 by John Gilbert of Compton and Greenway. In February 1547 Otho Gilbert was buried here.

#SteepleSaturday

I’ve been spending a lot of time with this intriguing woman today.

The first page proofs are in!

Hoping to pick up my needle again soon.

#mybook #katashley #queenelizabethsgoverness #proofreading

Today’s font is from the 12th century at the delightful little church of St Pancras in Exeter.

#FontsonFriday #exeter

It’s getting quite colourful in my Devon garden this week.

#FlowersOnFriday #spring

A small door at St John the Baptist Church, Marldon, Devon.

#AdoorableThursday

#WindowsOnWednesday
Dartmouth Castle.

📷 from April 2023

At last — a couple of hours in the garden! Still very soggy but I made a start. Managed to ‘loose’ the hand fork I was using to prize out the weeds. I expect it will turn up!

#gardening

Jacobean pulpit with foliage around rectangular panels, St Pancras Chirch, Exeter. It was among the items brought to St Pancras when Allhallows in Goldsmith Street was demolished in 1906,

#woodensday #woodcarvingwednesday

That’s wonderful- thanks again!

Brilliant— thank you. I’ll look out for that on other embroideries and paintings in future. I’ve also just discovered that the ‘Tau’ cross is another clue that it’s St. Anthony.

The first tulip of 2026 in my Devon garden — an early flowering species tulip.

#tuliptuesday #tulips #springisontheway

That’s really helpful, thank you. The gold thread has survived incredibly well. St Anthony it is!

Thanks - I was wondering about the grid he’s standing on?

Another look at a late 15th/early 16th century chasuble velvet embroidered in coloured silks and silver and silver-gilt thread. On display at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

I think this is St Jerome?

#textiletuesday
#embroidery

Crocus welcoming the sun in my Devon garden.

#garden

A surprisingly youthful face, supposed to represent Otho Gilbert, who was not a young man when he died in February 1493/4. St. John the Baptist Church, Marldon, Devon.

Great grandfather of Sir John, Humphrey and Adrian Gilbert.

#MonumentsMonday

I’m using up the last of the parsnips today. Parsnips soup will be a good standby in the freezer.

#growyourown #gardening #vegetables

Looking hopeful now.

I’m pleased to be proved wrong. Blue sky in Devon at last!

#bluesky #Devon #Camellia

Looks like that’s the closest we’ll get to sun in Devon today. Grey skies again, and I think it will rain soon. But my garden is doing its best to cheer me up. #springisontheway !

#SundayYellow #flowers

Stained glass at Bristol Cathedral was destroyed during WW2. One of the replacement windows includes an image of Sir Walter Raleigh.

#StainedGlassSunday

A February walk in the gardens at Dartington Hall.

In the sixteenth century this was the home of Sir Arthur Champernowne. Two of my novels are set here.

#gardens #devon #dartington

The ted Heavitree sandstone tower of St Martins, one of the oldest churches in Exeter — consecrated by Bishop Leofric on 6th July 1065.

From the angle of my 📷 it looks like a ‘leaning tower’!

#SteepleSaturday

The early bird….

A Robin at a rather soggy Dartington this morning.

#robin #bird

In my Devon garden this week. Spring can’t be far away.

#FlowersOnFriday

12th century square font St Andrew’s Church, Sampford Courtenay, Devon, made of purbeck marble and supported by a later granite pillar.

#FontsonFriday

That’s a first this year. I’m in Exeter and it’s not raining!

The iron cross on marks the site of St Mary Major last resting place of Katherine and her husband Walter Raleigh senior.

Out to lunch today with fellow authors from the Historical Novels Society.

#exeter
#historicalfictionauthor